Paul Berg

Paul Berg (30 June 1926-) was an American biochemist and professor at Stanford University who, along with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger, received the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to basic research involving nucleic acids.

Biography
Paul Berg was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York in 1926, and he worked for the American Cancer Society before serving as a Professor of the Washington University School of Medicine from 1955 to 1959 and at Stanford University from 1959 to 2000, teaching biochemistry. He also researched the gene splicing of recombinant DNA, and, in 1980, Berg, Walter Gilbert, and Frederick Sanger received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for researching nucleic acids.